Fastening for railway-ties.



No. 884,941. PATENTED APR. 14, 1908. U. M. MAPES.

FASTENING FOR RAILWAY TIES.

APPLICATION FILED APR.1 1. 1907. I

UNITED STATES PTN FFIGE.

CHARLES M. MAPES, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

FASTENING FOR RAILWAY-TIES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 14, 1908.

Application filed April 11, 1907. Serial No. 367 ,552.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES M. MAPES, of New York city in the county ofNew York, and in the State of New York, have invented a certain new anduseful Improvement in Fastenings for Railway-Ties, and do hereby declarethat the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof,reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Fi re 1 is aerspective view of a tie provide with my astening for rails; Fig. 2 is apartial side view, partly in section, 0 one of the rail fastenings inFig. 1 and Fig. 3 is a plan view of Fig. 2.

The object of my invention has been to provide a fastening for railwayties which shall be simple and cheap in construction and efficient inoperation, and which shall protect the tie from being injured by theanges of wheels in case 0 derailment; and to such ends my inventionconsists in the gasgening for railway ties hereinafter speci- Incarrying my invention into practice, I provide a plate A which is adated to be seated upon the tie B beneath t e position which the rail C isto occu y, the plate being provided with flanges a t at over-hang thesides of the tie, so that if a wheel escapes from the rail, it willstrike said flanges and will not cut into the tie. The plate 18 securedto the tie as by bolts D extending up through the tie and through holesin the plate. The rail 0 is seated u on the plate A and is held inosition by c ips E, which over-lie the rail base on o posite sides, andwhich at their outer ends, re ative to the rails, rest upon the plate A.The clips E are provided with ownwardly bent portions 6 at their outerends, each of which portions is received in a slot 1. formed in theplate A. The cli s E are bolted down to the plate A by bol ts F havingtheir heads beneath the late A, and having nuts f above the clipswashers G being preferably provided between the nuts and the plate, thewashers having their lower surfaces inclined to fit the clips. The boltsF pass through slots H, which-are of suflicient size to permit the headof the bolt to pass, and then the shank of the bolt is moved toward therail into an extension I of the slot H. The bolt is thus quickly andeasily engaged with the plate A without re uiring to be passed throughthe plate from elow. The slot H and the slot a are separated by aconnecting piece K, thus making a much stronger construction than wouldbe the case if the slots H and a merged into each other. The connectionK strengthens the side walls of the slots H and the extension I, andprevents their being bent upward under the strain of the bolts. The slota is made sufflciently larger than the downwardly bent portions e of thecli s E, to permit sufficient adjustment of the c ips to accommodate anydesired position of the rail.

I claim A fastenin for railway ties, comprising a plate adapte to besecured to the u per surace of the tie, and having flanges a apted toover-lie the upper edges of the tie, clips ada ted to bear upon therail-base flanges, said clips having at their outer ends downwardly bentextensions, slots formed in said plate and adapted to receive saiddownwardly bent extensions, slots formed in said plate beneath anintermediate ortion of said clips, said slots comprising a arger portionthat is ada ted to receive the head of a bolt, and a smallgr extensionthat is adapted to receive only the shank of the bolt, said late havinga connecting piece interposec between said slots to strengthen the wallsof the latter slot, and of the extension.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand.

CHARLES M. MAPES. Witnesses:

EDWIN J. PRINDLE, LILLIE CAss.

